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The contest is now open. Get your entries submitted by midnight EST 7/25.
Voting will be held on 7/26 - 7/31. Winners will be announced on 8/1.

51. Benitora's  Space Entry

This is my computer that I always use at my office to complete all my task. No really a powerful computer but just good enuff. I also make it's a dual boot OS so when i want to use to complete office job I switch to Windows 2003 Ent Svr, but when I want to have fun, I boot into a powerful Linux OS.

52. Greg Mills Space Entry

From left to right you'll see:
Music Area:
Fender Acoustic Guitar
Meinl Djembe
Dean Amp
BrandX Mic
Headphones
Roland Keyboard
Eurorack Mixer (not shown)
Workstation:
Paper Shredder
Wireless Phone
PC w/ Dual Monitors
Toshiba e750 PDA (between the monitors)
HP Scanner
Deskjet656c (under the desk)
Subwoofer (under the desk)
Linksys Wireless Access Point (under the desk)
Drawing Desk:
Stitch Bobblehead
Nextel i60c
RCA 3-disk bookcase stereo
Lots of computer and design books
Juggling balls

I could have drug out the laptop and photography equipment that is kept
behind the small door behind the keyboard but I don't like my space to look
cluttered.

53. Rick Batchelor's Space Entry

Here's my space. In it: My Toshiba Satellite 2515CDS notebook on lower left, my Toshiba e-740 Pocket PC, Apple Newton MessagePad 120, Sony Clie' TJ-35, CTL Monitor. Under my monitor is my VCR attached to video capture card in my PC. On top of my monitor are my Creative labs speakers, my Fujitsu Stylistic 2300 Tablet PC with CompUSA branded 802.11b Wi-Fi Card and my Netgear Wireless Router. Between my monitor and computer is my Visioneer 6200 USB Scanner, with my Olympus C-2100 Ultra Zoom on top of it. In front of scanner & computer, a CompUSA branded Office/Multimedia keyboard. My main computer is a Compaq 7000us 1.4GHZ P-4 with 2 80GB HDDs & 384MB RAM, CD-RW, DVD, Multi-Card reader. On top of it is my Fujitsu Point 510 Tablet PC. My Logitech optical mouse is in front of my phone & my Wacom 4X6 Art Tablet is behind my world map with it's pen by the phone. The photo was taken with my Canon EOS KISS Digital Rebel 300D.

54. Mel Odom's Space Entry

Functional workspace where everything is within arms reach and eyesight. No moving around to get to, or see anything. The in-case CD/DVD caddies hold needed back ups and often used disks.
Now if I could only find a recliner computer chair with built in massage. Anyone know of one?

55. Daniel Chun's Space Entry

My space features an IBM thinkpad X30 hooked up to a 15 inch monitor for extended desktop. There is a linksys wifi router on the very top. The two speakers on top are powered by a 160 watt mixer that is right underneath it. My pda is a Sony UX50 and my phone is the Motorola V600.

The desk also folds up when not in use to save space.

56. Ronen Shurer's Space Entry

My workspace consist of two workstations, one I use as a server (Win2k3) for IIS, FTP and Exchange, the other is a WinXP used for surfing, games and any other activity. Both connected with an ATEN kvm switch and a HP 19" screen. I also have an IBM T40 ThinkPad laptop that I use mainly for work. On the left there is an HP DeskJet 5652 duplex printer. A 3com wireless gateway (to the right) connects all the computers together, and then connects to a Samsung ADSL modem. I use a Muzio MP3 player that I bought in Korea for listening to music, although I have a Sony T665 Clie, that I use mainly for contacts, meetings, calculator when I'm on the road. An S710 polar watch (heart monitor) records all my sport activities so I can analyze them later on the laptop. And last but not least - a bonsai tree (to the left) that I love very much.
All these lays on a table that my dad and i have built with our bare hands.

57. Jonathan Lee's Space Entry

My desk is L-shaped and next to my bed. I have my T3, Nokia & bunch of remotes on my bedside table so that I can reach them whether I’m in bed or sitting at the desk. I have a TV and stereo on the opposite wall but they’re too boring to photograph. My DVD writer is there too for convenience and connected to the computer under my desk via Brando’s USB2-to-IDE cable I first read about on The Gadgeteer’s website (it became to inconvenient having to reach & feel for the eject button each time I wanted to use the drive). My computer itself is placed under the desk to decrease noise (it really does make a difference) and save desk space. The printer is there for the same reason. My wireless access point is to the left of Cable Hell, hidden from the camera’s angle, unfortunately. I have my cable tv box connected to my computer since most of the time, I’d be watching a show on my PC monitor while browsing the web or doing some work or whatever (it’s also connected to my real TV)… When I need to be mobile, I use my Fujitsu P1110 and TDK slim external writer & Creative TravelSound if necessary.

58. Luis Argerich's Space Entry

The desk: glass and metal with home-made blue backlight. Over the desk: Led binary clock, lamp, calculator, Microsoft Sidewinder Strategic Commander, HP Speakers, Sour candy sprays, Lego mini-star destroyer, Lego mini-at&t, 30 faces dice, about a hundread pens and pencils, USB air purifier, SUN microsystems 21'' monitor, Palm Zire 71, Kodak 6 in 1 card reader, a bell, Palm Vx, data bank watch craddle, Zip drive, HP Pavilion 7850, linksys wireless G-band router (above the Pavilion), Belkin 4-port USB hub, Q-drive 32mb, Muvo 128mb mp3 player, USB light. Intel camera (above monitor). Stack of storage space filled with gadgets at the left. On the desktop extension: Casio wrist camera watch, Garmin GPS, Personal air conditioner, Olympus digital voice recorder, I-button ring, digital pedometer, quick scan pen, backup card reader, Cobra radios, noise-reduction Apache headset, FM pen, backup digital recorder. Phone, electric pencil sharpener.

Below the desk: paper shredder, extra speakers, another USB hub, HP Vectra PC, A compaq deskpro PC, blank CDs tower, Compaq notebook, Men in Black weapon (above the notebook), Coke bottles (mini fridge in the back). On the tray: Keyboard, illuminated mouse and Flexiglow illuminated mousepad. Puffffff!

59. loidonfaek's Space Entry

Just the real world not making up

60. TL Westgate's Space Entry

OK, here is my humble abode. It's pretty cluttery, but I'm moving to a different one next month, so I ain't cleaning until then. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

61. Keith Ford's Space Entry

Man, there are some neat work spaces out there.  Of the four in my house this is the one I call home.

62. Ben J. Davidson's Space Entry

Note the sight on my main monitor ;)

My pda is in the aluminum case laying on the right near the wireless joystick and the zalman 5.1 headphones.

And yes, this is my work desk.  I use computers on a kvm with the main pc having access to the 2 flat panels also.  Works well for my database and programming work.

63. Björn Blomberg's Space Entry

Yes, this is my actual (ordinary) working space and where I write this text, in my "updated" living room...
I run two web sites and you see one of them - the free EE passion contact club - in my Toshiba's lovely 15" screen...
Then have we my "old" but still superior Psion 3C (hope the coming Nokia 9500 can replace it) and my trusty Siemens mobile phone... On top of my HiFi equipment, shine my amazing Panasonic MX8 video camera and 100 cm behind my notebook (just right of the picture) stand my huge TV set and far right four giant speakers (modified 15" Cerwin-Vega) so the little one in the top corner, is just one of the surround speakers... Finally can I naturally move the "desk" when I sit down in the comfy leather sofa, so I get my notebook almost in front of me and I live in Stockholm, Sweden!

64. Enrico Bicol's Space Entry

Good day to ya, my fellow gadgeteers! This is my Workspace, or should I say Play-space =)� Sometimes I call it �The Bridge� (Picture taken with a Sony Cybershot Camera). I normally spend 8 to 10 hours a day on this spot doing mostly music & audio stuffs. And of course, just like any other Gadgeteer, Surfing the net! � it�s an essential part of my lifecycle

As you can see, the space is very limited in terms of floor area considering the number of gears I have. My first dilemma when I was just setting up is how to fit everything into this corner without cluttering the space. So I custom designed a 4-segment L-Shaped desk that can accommodate all the toys that I have.

What you dont see in this picture are: My other windows computer in the adjacent area, APC UPS, HP deskjet 5652, the tons of cables hidden behind each desk and Spider Man coz hes too busy swinging around the room when this picture was taken.

65. Nikola Runev's Space Entry

66. Louis Yong's Space Entry

Space is a premium in my apartment. So I took advantage of my balcony and made it into a cozy corner for writing articles on my Pocket PC. Inspiration comes easily when I have a cup of hot chocolate beside me, listening to my favourite CD on the stereo and expecting a phone call from my girlfriend.

67. Bob Reinke's Space Entry

In the center is a 21" Hitachi CRT surrounded by 2 19" Sony (dell branded) monitors. Under the main monitor is a 7port USB hub and an internal DVD burner that was converted to external with a micro pro plus case. (thanx #62). There is an Ipaq 1935, and the Sony Vaio to the right. The dragons keep the gremlins away from the P4, 2.8GHz, 2GB Ram, 80GB HDD PC with more lights and gadgets than an airport. Finally, there is a picture of my wife, which I was informed was MANDATORY at my workstation. If you were to look to the right of this radiation machine, you would see Ben Davidson�s workstation (#62), but it is nowhere near as fun as mine. And mine IS bigger.

68. Michael Louw's Space Entry

From left to right, front to back (more or less): Epson Perfection 3200 Photo scanner // Epson Stylus Color 880 printer // External USB/Firewire 3.5" 160 Gb hard disk // Labtec speaker // Logitech MX310 mouse used on PC (I learned to use it left-handed; works very well too) // Handspring Visor Prism with eyemodule2 // Microsoft Internet Keyboard Pro (used on PC) // Belkin 7-port USB 2.0 hub // Dell monitor stand with stylish Neovo X174 17" TFT LCD monitor (cost a fortune years ago, but I can switch it between PC-DVI, iBook-VGA and a TV tuner module-S-video!) // Palm Tungsten T3 // another Labtec speaker (wow, stereo ;-) // Microsoft Wheelmouse Optical used on iBook (back to right-handed use here ;-) // External Firewire 2.5" 60 Gb hard disk // and finally, my lovely Apple iBook 12" G3 800 Mhz sitting on a Griffin iCurve.

Not shown, underneath my desk, a boring home-made PC (AMD Athlon XP-2500+; rest is always changing); and downstairs, an Apple Airport Extreme base station.

More fun stuff is stored away: Canon Powershot G3 digicam // IRISPen Express text scanning pen (I want to scan everything I read) // Evolution MK449C USB/Midi Controller (for when I learn to play music) // Wacom PenPartner graphics tablet (for when I learn to draw) // Contour ShuttlePro 2 controller (for when I learn to make movies).

On the Neovo, you can see the photo of my favorite setup in this competition. Original and very nice, Valerie!

My desk consists of two recovered wooden panels on top of two IKEA trestles. Hey! Before you move on to the next setup, take a look at the pretty painting in the upper left. I bought it in a consignment sale house (TROC).

69. Tom Doan's Space Entry

Here is my desk, it's not IKEA. I pretend to know where everything is all of the time. so how many gadgets and gizmos can you find in this photo? ;) gosh, I'm afraid to count! I reckon I kinda need a change of space.

70. Jason Burris Space Entry

71. Siew Chen Way's Space Entry

Ever since I started work not too long ago, this is the new setup of my workspace. The PowerBook is for personal use while the Thinkpad is for work. The specifications of the computers are:

PowerBook 12" Combo Drive
1 Ghz PPC G4
768Mb Ram
60Gb HDD
Airport Extreme
Apple Mouse

Thinkpad T41
1.4Ghz Centrino (Wireless B)
512 Mb Ram
30 Gb HDD
Combo Drive

Also included in the picture are a Sony Ericsson T630 with an HBH-35 headset (It was charging behind the phone), 3M Precise Mousing Surface, Bose Wave Radio CD and all my music CDs as well as software packages on the right. Due to the fact that my wireless router and modem are located in my living room, it was taken separately. They are a Linksys WRT54G and a Netgear DM602. Both pictures were taken on a Sony Cybershot DSC-U10.

72. IIIxe User's Space Entry

This is my work space.This locate at under the stair form left

Microlab's Speaker(for notebook b'coz power from USB) under speaker do you see wireless keyboard box(infrared). Next PC use CPU intel celeron 700 MHz,ram 326 MB, HD 30 GB(change to 150 GB next month).Near mornitor have Sony CLIE T615. Upper tower case has USB hub and USB bluetooth.Next tower HP 3820.

73. Gary Willson's Space Entry

I spend so much time on the computer that I thought I would make life a little more comfortable.

74. Spencer Kirk-Jackson's Space Entry

Here it is... my space/office. From left to right CRT and LCD on a Sony Vaio Wintel, then Cintiq, ad Two Apple displays for the G4, tucked in front of the second Apple display is a Sony TH55 and my T610 phone should be there (or it's gone for walk... again!) Then finally there's an Apple Powerbook.... both main machines have the Logitech MX500 wireless recharging mice (best mouse I've ever used, Apple stuff is great but One button?!) Anyway, my iPod is there and a PowerMate should be on there somwhere too. Hidden away are LaCie drives (mirrored) for backups and a 1500w APC UPS... and all the network equipment can be seen hiding on the left.

I pretty much had to stand in the next room to get a picture of all this <grin>

75. Jonathan Yao's Space Entry

First Picture:
The ballast for the florescent light behind the computer is not working, that is why the photo is dark.

IBM ThinkPad A30p with 1.2 Ghz pentium III CPU and a DVD/CD-RW combo drive
40 GB 3G iPod with base
Plantronics vista M12 Headset
GE 2-9436 Telephone
Dazzle 6 in 1 Media Reader - next to the calendar behind the keyboard
RCA WHP140 900 MHz Wireless Headphones
Mobility EasiDock Model USB 200
Targus Ergonomic LCD/Notebook Stand
IBM keyboard
Vision Command LEGO cam
ViewSonic Graphics Series G773 - 16" - for duel monitors
Wacom Intuos 2 Graphics Tablet - 6 X 8
Cambridge SoundWorks PCWorks 2.1
SONY KV-27S22 27 Inch TV

Under the TV:
Dish Network Receiver
SONY DPV-S53OD DVD Player
SONY SLV-798HD VCR Player
Olympus VC-106 VCR Player

Second picture:
Behind my desk you can see my bookshelf and my DVD collection of mostly anime. On top of my bookshelf, you can see three boxes of toner. Two more of the boxes are under the box to the left of the bookshelf. The chair is there put my feet up. There is a Linksys BEFSR41 4 port Router to the left of the photo, where the cables go that are on the floor.

Third picture:
Hewlett Packard OfficeJet K 80 - Under the orange towel behind the white monitor
160 Western Digital hard drive with IDE to Firewire or USB 2.0 enclosure - left end of table.
Lexmark 4039 LaserPrinter Plus

The desktop and two laptops are my brothers. The one on the left (ThinkPad 570) of the CD-RW was my old one and now is my brother's old one. The one on the right is my brother's new laptop (ThinkPad T21) that he got two weeks ago.

Not shown:
Audiovox CDM-8600 cell phone
SanDisk Cruzer USB thumb drive with 128 MB SD card with case
Casio EX-Z4 camera with 256 MB SD card - used for pictures
Sony MDR-EX71 headphones with case - for my iPod

76. Barry Galvin's Space Entry

The part of my house where dreams are recognised and imaginations run riot.
Where characters are born, and the space around us is explored. Every gadget has its purpose ...
My Apple iPod 20Gb feeds my imagination with images from sounds of music.
My Sony Vaio FX laptop acts as the tool for extracting the images and thoughts from my mind.
My Lacie External Disk backs up the Drive so reserves its parking space under the desk.
My HP Business Inkjet 1100 printer allows my work to be touched.
My Nokia 6310i acts as my connection to the outside world, through sound and pictures.
My Dazzle USB 2.0 breaks the 'language' barrier as my data is allowed to move from place to place.
Three dimensions are reduced to two dimensions with my Sony Cybershot 3.2 Mega Pixels.
Letters from friends and loved ones are converted using my Canon ScanJet into a format that will out live its creator.
As I look through my Celestron telescope (just out of frame) I wonder how many other 'people' on baron or lush worlds are sharing the same feelings as my technology shows.
My Palm Tungsten T decides when I spend time at my desk, unless the professional urgencies of my Tungsten C decides otherwise.
And although not a gadget, the Michael Myers figure reminds me of the darker side of humanity. But the Unicorn figure reassures me that all is not lost.

77. Harris Graber's Space Entry

I probably won't win any Good Housekeeping awards, but maybe this is sufficiently unique to win something.
This is my home workspace. My business workspace isn't quite like this. I only have one computer at work.

I can find most everything I need, though not necessarily immediately. The chair is comfortable. The towel is to protect it from my cats.

This is my space at work. I took a quick break to take this photo with my new Canon S1 IS that is always in my backpack (except when it is being used, of course). I cleaned up yesterday because I had to find a particular paper that had disappeared.

78. Brian Crew's Space Entry

I am in the Army and when I am not at the office or deployed here is where I spend most of my time.  My job in the military requires me to be a jack of all trades when it comes to computers.  A network technician one day, a graphic illustrator the next.  I keep my office computer linked to my home PC (an Alienware Area51) via my trusty Tungsten T3.  I use my laptop (an Alienware Area 51m) for business trips and those long deployments...not to mention hours of gaming!  Both my wife and I are artists so we alternate on who uses the drafting table and who works the PC.  I use Adobe Photoshop 7 and Corel 11.  I use a Linksys Router for my wireless network.  For my scanning and printing needs I have a Epson RX600 printer and a Astra 122OU scanner.  I have a 250mb and 100mb ZIP drives and a Western Digital 60mb external hard drive for backups and a handy 512mb thumb drive for the road. 

79. Mark Anderton's Space Entry

80. Jason Pascoe's Space Entry

Jason's Spacey Workspace. This my home workspace in Berlin, Germany. As you can see from the pictures I love 70s /spaceage design (flea markets come a close second hobby to gadgets!). I often work late at night and like to have a nice ambient light (the orange/red is not a malfunctioning camera - it really looks like this!) with some ambient music in the background (Lali Puna is playing as I write this). On my spacey table I keep laid out my various PDAs I've bought over the years (I first got hooked back in the 80s with a Psion Organiser II). This is for function as well as for decoration; as a Palm developer (amongst other things) I like to have all the older models to hand for compatibility testing.

On the outer ring there is: an original U.S. Robotics Pilot, a U.S. Robotics PalmPilot, a 3Com PalmPilot, a 3Com Palm III, a 3Com Palm IIIe, a Palm IIIc, a Palm Vx, a Palm m125, a Palm m505, a Palm m515, and a Palm Tungsten T. Everything still works fine!

On the inside ring is the original Psion Organiser II Model XP, a Psion Series 5 (Special Olive Green Ed.), Psion Revo, Handspring Visor Edge, and HP iPAQ h4155.

The latter HP is my current device. Why? great device design, very portable, no slider, built-in Bluetooth and WiFi, great for word processing with HP's fold-up keyboard, great MP3 sound, and although the screen-res is less than the T3 I find the font rendering much nicer. That said, I find many of the apps and UI - esp. NotePad and ToDo - better thought out on the Palm OS.

My main computer is a Sony Picturebook which is networked via a free WiFi hotspot run by the beer garden next door (and which, on a good day, just about covers my apartment too - though sometimes I have to crouch with my laptop in the very corner of my room to get a signal!). The Picturebook is a portability dream - its as small and light as you can get whilst still having a usable keyboard, processor & screen resolution. For music my Pocket PC is hooked up to the Vision 2000 (the spacey-looking 70s HiFi in the corner!) though sometimes it is my laptop. (Incidentally, the smaller ball-on-a-stand thing next to the Vision 2000 is one of the speakers...)

You may also just be able to make out next to the illuminated globe an old Ericsson phone (the dial is on the bottom). Also in the middle of the table is my first "computer": an early Seiko digital calculator watch! Other miscellaneous items include an old Polaroid camera (much more fun than digital's in my opinion... and with the picture acting as a physical link to the time & place it was taken... and with much more random/artistic results!, a 70s remote controlled R2D2 (hard to spot, but visible!) and an empty container of Ben & Jerry's half-baked ice-cream (you will rarely find a full one in my apartment!!).

81. Alex Mayorga Adame's Space Entry

This is my corner. From left to right: mini phone with a Jabra EarWrar, random writing tools, an Andrea microphone (came with my ViaVoice), my Treo 600 sync base, my beloved Dell Latitude CPxJ, my CD-RW/DVD-ROM Sony MPD-AP20U, a Cordless Mx Duo and one “balero” (traditional Mexican toy) for the times when I get bored wit the internet. You can also see the SpeedStream 2500 DSL Modem (turned into router) a Belkin 7-port USB hub, “al cheapo” speakers, the wireless keyboard for my m130 (not showing), random CD’s and magazines. Not showing: an HP PSC 750 and my much loved Treo 600 GSM (taking the picture). Please vote for me =)

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